What is an AST transformation in general? I came across these words when reading Groovy blog's. But what it is in general?

Are there any good papers discussing how to take a dynamic program and parallelize it?

I'm reading implementing functional languages: a tutorial, and encountered a problem when implementing floating pass of fully lazy lambda lifting. I would like to describe how floating works to ma...

I am desiring a command-line tool to extract a definition or declaration (typedef, structure, enumeration, variable, or function) from a C or C++ source file. Also a way to replace an existing defi...

How would you go about converting a reasonably large (>300K), fairly mature C codebase to C++? The kind of C I have in mind is split into files roughly corresponding to modules (i.e. less granular...

Steve Yegge mentioned it in a blog post and I have no idea what it means, could someone fill me in? Is it the same thing as tail call optimization?

Anyone knows a way to define refactoring in a more formal way? UPDATE. A refactoring is a pair R = (pre; T) where pre is the precondition that the program must satisfy, and T is the program tr...